CIT loc. 1232, Price Hollow (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as LACMIP loc. 10824

Where: Shasta County, California (40.6° N, 122.1° W: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 86.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Hooten Gulch Mudstone Member (Redding Formation), Early/Lower Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• Member V and VI

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: W. P. Popenoe and L. R. Saul. 1987. Evolution and classification of the Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary gastropod Perissitys. Contributions in Science 380:1-37 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72038: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.05.2007, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Perissityidae
Perissitys elaphia n. sp. Popenoe and Saul 1987 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Calva (Egelicalva) taffi2 Anderson 1958 venus clam
 Trigoniida - Steinmanellidae
Yaadia pinea1 Saul 1978 clam
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymerita veatchii3 Gabb 1864 clam